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An Elizabethan inheritance : the Hardwick Hall textiles / Santina M. Levey.
Fine Arts Library NK9244.D47 L48 1998a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levey, Santina M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608--Art collections.
- Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot.
- Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hardwick Talbot, Countess of, 1527?-1608.
- Hardwick Hall (England)--Catalogs.
- Hardwick Hall (England).
- Textile fabrics--England--Derbyshire--Catalogs.
- Textile fabrics.
- Catalogs.
- Art museums.
- England--Derbyshire.
- Embroidery, Elizabethan--England--Derbyshire.
- Local Subjects:
- Embroidery, Elizabethan--England--Derbyshire.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Hardwick Hall textiles
- Place of Publication:
- London : National Trust, 1998.
- Summary:
- Written by an acknowledged authority on the subject -- the former Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- This authoritative account places the world's finest collection of 16th and early 17th century textiles in their original context. Santina Levey explains the social, economic and artistic environment in which the embroideries were created for Bess of Hardwick. Using account books, inventories, letters and personal reminiscences, Levey describes the origins of the different types of furnishings, unravels their complex meanings and looks at the inevitable alterations that four hundred years have wrought on them.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [108]-[109]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0707802490
- 9780707802497
- OCLC:
- 39642765
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